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      ,.= • . Charge Of Rape Against A Clergtm...

      _,.= . CHARGE OF RAPE AGAINST A CLERGTMAN . Brbstwood . —For several days past an extraordinary sensation has prevailed among all classes in this part of the county , in consequence ofa very serious charge having been preferred against a cler- j gyman _, of considerable influence in the church , and who , for some ye a rs , has held a lucrative living as lector ofa parish adjoining this town . The name of the defendant is the Rev . R . A . Johnstone . The offence imputed to the rev . gentleman is no other than the violation of hia servant girl . In the early part of last month the daughter of a decent labouring man , residing at Ingram , entered the service of the rector . Within a week afterwards she quitted _^ _- _^ _g _^ " ' * ¦ . ..

      the parsonage , and returned to herparents' cottage In the course of a few days the girl ' s flight _beeame known in the village and strange rumours were buzzed about as to the cause ; EtenUally , the alleged tree story reached the ears ofa mag i strate who is a clergyman , and he communicated with Mr ! Coulson , the superintendent of the Essex constabulary , stationed here , and that officer was instructed io make inquiries as to the truth of the allegations . « £ £ « 7 T P * eded a _* once to the residence of SS » _hSr _^ _*? nd r ? _- tnrned _™«» them and then daughter te the police-station of this place . The _arl being duly sworn , said : My name is Mary Ann nf ' _tiL _*?*!®^** _"" of "ge » _^ _d l _™ * t Ingram . On the oth of October I went to live with the

      _£ _uf - * l entIeman ' and to * the Sunday morning _Allowing he came intothe kitchen , and patted me on tne _baci , and gave aio a kiss . On Tuesday morning , the 8 th nit ., he was in the kitchen when I came down stairs . Ho gave me the keys of the two floors . His plaid was on tho floor near the fireplace . He took me round the waist and threw me f ° _* . upon it . The witness then proceeded to detail the particulars which went to substantiate the charge , but which are unfit for publication . She ¦ was for some time insensible . Witness continued : After I came round , I went upstairs and brought any clothes down to go home , and Mrs . —'— came , and I told her what had happened , and she gave me some medicine to revive me , and I wished to go , — o-

      home , but she would make me take my clothes upstairs again , and as soon as I had an pportunity I brought them down again , and went home , and told my mother what had happened . —Sophia Doe , wife of John Doe , labourer , said : On the 9 th ult . Mr . Johnstone came to my house , and asked me how JIary was . I said , very sadly : he said he was very sorry at what had happened , bnt he must own that he was very resolute with any child . He asked me io let her go hack again , and said it should not happen again . Ho brought some medicine in a bottle , and gave me 2 s ., and my other daughter ls . 6 d ., aud asked me to go to his house in the evening to see Mrs . — . I did so , and she wanted my daughter to go baok again , but I refused , and said I should not feel happy for her to be in the house . Mrs . Posterfield wns in my house when my

      daughter came home , and I told her what Mr . Johnstone lad been doing . —On the following Tuesday the Rev . R . A . Johnstone appeared in answer to a summons . The girl was not in attendance , and on tbe _pol-ce being called upon for an explanation , they stated that they had ascertained that the girl with her father and mother , had on the previous day been hurried up to London hy some party . The magistrates determined on remanding the case , and liberated the defendant , on two sureties of £ 286 each , and himself in £ 500 . Saturday last being the day appointed for re-hearing tho case , the rev . defendant surrendered before the magistrates . The complainant was not present , but the superintendent of police had no doubt that he should be able to produce her at the nest examination . The bench remanded the case for a week .

      The Late Burglary In The Regent's Park. ...

      THE LATE BURGLARY IN THE REGENT'S PARK . On Monday the four men in custody for the burglary nt Jlr , Holford ' s , Regent ' s Park , were _brought up at the Marylebone court for further examination . A conversation took place between the magistrate and the police , from which it appeared that the officers had been closely watching the women with whom the prisoners cohabited , and that they were of opinion that there was yet another party concerned in the burglary . Barry , one of the officers , expressed his conviction _thathis information was good , and that he should succeed in apprehending the person not yet in custody . —Mr . Joseph , surgeon , Great _Marylebone-street _, said : I examined Mahou ' s hands in this conrt and in the cell . On one hand there was a cut a little more than an inch in length , and partially healed . On the right hand there were three distinct marks of shot . He was afterwards stripped by the police , but there were no other marks on the hody . The

      shot marks had a , circular inclination like shot wounds , and I think the marks were so produced . The marks wonld not haTo been caused by a fall on the gravel . The cut could have been occasioned by a spike in attempting to get over a railing . "No shot has been extracted by any instrument . The shot had not been removed by a cutting instrument . The wound was a superficial one , and the shot might have been taken out in an hour , and the hand could become healed before the prisoner was apprehended . A wound got on the gravel would heal sooner than a gunshot wound . —Mr . Collins , surgeon , 1-5 , Moraington-place : On Monday last , about a quarter to two , I was called up to the Albany-street station . I saw the prisoner Mitchell there , who said he was in very great pain , and had been taken away before he got his wounds dressed . I found the arm and shoulder enveloped in a poultice , and having about eleven or twelve gun-shot wounds in the back . There were no shots in the

      wounds . I saw no appearance of shot coming out nnder the tongue , but I had not a complete view of every part of the body . . He acknowledged that tkey were shot wounds , but he did not say how he got them . —Police-constable D . 31 produced the hat in whieh were shot marks . —Mr . Colling : The shot marks I saw on the body could not have been caused hy shot passing through the hat . Mitchell was in great pain . —Another hat wag here produced , which ¦ w as found near Mr . Holford ' s honse , and was tried

      on Robinson , and proved a very bad fit , as it went over his head and covered his nose , amidst much laughter . The hat had a convenient drawer in the top for carrying a candle . The hat was then tried on Mahon _. and nearly fitted him . —Mr . Wontner said his client was in bed at the time of the burglary , as he would prove by witnesses , and it was a strong fact the police expected to apprehend another party . —Several witnesses were then called to prove an cdibi ; but the magistrates , however , remanded the prisoners till Monday next .

      An Evextfel Career.—Our Obituary Thia We...

      An Evextfel Career . —Our obituary thia week records the death ofan individual ( Anna Duchess of Palata ) the history of whose fortunes would fill no small page in romantic story . She was the daughter of John Peele , a small farmer at _Corriugham , near _Gainsborough , who eked ont a somewhat declining livelihood by dealing in horses , < fcc . having previously been in better circumstances . Being an only daughter , and aware . that she possessed no small share of rustic charms , our embryo duchess , despising the limited sphere in which she lived , resolved to try her fortune elsewhere . She became a dressmaker in Gainsborough , and resided subsequently in Hull , and it is said as housemaid in a good family in London , where her attractions

      obtained for her the attentions ofa person of rank , to whom she afterwards averred she was married ; and she from that time occupied a position where her fortunes led her into contact with some of the highest classes . A few years afterwards she astonished her former companions by appearing with her carriage and livery servants in the character of chere amie to Mr . Fauntleroy _, then a flourishing banker in London . Unfortunately the riches of the hanker were of a doubtful character ; and some time afterwards he was convicted of forgery , apd paid the penalty with his life . Affected by the ruin , but not participating in the crime of Fauntleroy , our heroine struggled bravely with fate , and generally maintained a fair appearance in society both

      in London and in Paris . She shortly re-appeared in ber native county as Duches 3 of Palata . At this time tbe fortunes of her family had reduced them to he the occupants of a small cottage at Morton , and age rendering her father incapable of active exertion , he filled the humble office of rural postman . To her honour , it should be recorded , that she enabled her parents to pass the remainder of their days in comfort . Six or seven years ago she again ¦ visited her native place , a widow , his grace the Puke of Palata having paid the debt of nature . Her mother she left at Morton , paid the last duties to her father ( somewhat ostentatiously ) , and volunteered her assistance to promote the advancement ofher female relatives . Again , however " a _change came o ' er the spirit of her dream ; " and some three

      or four years ago the public journals announced her marriage to the son of an Irish clergyman " of good ' family . In this character , accompanied by her niece as / emme de chambre , but not by her husband I she one more visited Gainsborough and the scenes I of her youth ; after making her mother an allowance , to be paid monthly ( to prevent some avaricious parties from defrauding her of it , as she had too much reason to suspect would be the case ) , she again departed for Italy , in good health ; but death , -which spares neither rank nor character , has closed the " last scene of all this strange eventful history . " The above are but the broad outlines ofher career , although it would be easy to expand them to almost any limit : as related to the writer of this notice they seemed more like the tales of romance than of Teritable narrative . —Stamford Mercury .

      Railway is Pieomont . —The Piedmontese journals publish the _report made to the Federal Council Of Berne by ths English engineer ? , Messrs . Stephenson , Maclean , and Stillman , on the subject of tbe grand railway between Piedmont and Switzer . hunt In _ii-tefioureeojf the works they propose to turn to _acccwb t & e _lajies of Geneva and Constance ,

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      ' ; - ¦——— _pwb _^^ _m CONYICTION OF TEE LOWESTOFT BOATMEN On Monday , at tho Assembly-rooms of the Queen s , the charges were heard against the beachmen of Lowestoft , for impeding the rescue of the Lunar , Capt Pettie , from Archangel for London , from off the Hewcombe Sands , and assaulting the crew ofthe Lowestoft steamer , which had put off to her assistance . —Mr . Ballantine , the barrister , and Mr . Maynard , attended to prosecute ; and Mr . Palmer , the Recorder for Great Yarmouth , appeared for the defendants . 3 _fd fewer than eighteen of the beachmen had informations laid against them ; hut . Mr . Ballantine only selected two of the defendants to commence the inquiry , it being asserted that the part they had taken in resisting the due authority of the law was more distinguishable ' _~ ¦ _. .. * _""^ _M

      than the other cases . Their names were William Norman and John Hollond Sanders , and they pleaded not guilty to the charge laid against tbem . —Mr . Ballantine having opened the proceedings , the witnesses for the prosecution were then called . Their testimony extended to some length , but tho following are tbe main and principal facts . On the morning of tho ISth of October , the Lunar struck on the Newcombe Sands , and three , men came off from the beach , and tendered their services in getting the vessel off . The Lowestoft steam-tug then came off ,, and eventually she was engaged By the master , Mr . Petty , to assist in getting the brig off for _. £ 50 . By this period other boats had come off , and their services being positively refused , they became indignant at the course pursued by the

      harboHr authorities in sending out the tug . The defendants , it would appear , waited upon the deputy harbour master , and desired the . tug to . be withdrawn . Such being refused , however , murderous threats were held out to the captain . They said that they ( the tug ) were . taking tbe bread out of their mouths , that someone had better be sent out to read the riot act , for that they , the boatmen , intended to muster . Otter boats- ' -in all six—were near the brig , and on the tug endeavouring to tow tho brig off , they unhooked the towing hawsers by , their boat-hooks , and , after resorting to every stratagem , they commenced pelting the captain , Mr . Cooper , and others of the crew of the tug , with stones . They succeeded ih thwarting the exertions of those in the tug , and the master was hit in the

      side with a stone , which rendered him insensible . He was taken ashore apparently for dead , and now continues ill . The deck of the steamer was strewn with _stone 3 , which the men * had brought off purposely for the attack , and it heing seen . that they were determined , if possible , to keep her away , she returned to the harbour , leaving the brig onthe sands . The fellows again pressed their services , but were as positively declined , when the coast guard officers arrived , and order being somewhat restored , another tug , the Pursuit , came off , and got the vessel off into the roadstead . —The Chairman ( the Rev . Mr . Love ) , after consulting with the bench , expressed his regret at the occurrence . Had the injuries to the captain of the steamer terminated fatally , they might have all been placed in a very serious position . The bench were inclined to believe that they might have been acting nnder an erroneous impression , and in consideration of that circumstance , they reduced the penalties on each of

      tbe defendants to £ 10 or two months' imprisonment . —Mr . Ballantine then said that all the company required was to show the men that they were acting illegally , and as that object had been attained , he would be content with their putting in their own recognizances to keep the peace . —The bench acquiesced , and the remainder of the defendants being called in and pleading guilty , they were bound over in the way recommended . —Capt . Stewart observed that while he lamented the necessity of the present proceedings , he could not but bear witness to the courageous and daring conduct of the _Lowestoft beachmen . In saying so . he regretted what had appeared in print about their being wreckers . They had evidently acted under an erroneous impression , but now they had found out their mistake , he hoped they would exhibit a generous rivalry in saving life and property . The circumstance of their saving 200 fellows on one occasion would ever remain sacred in his memory as an instance of their noblo and daring character .

      Desertion Ik Canada.—The Eingston Chroni...

      Desertion ik Canada . —The Eingston Chronicle says that " Pursuant to garrison orders of the 5 th of October , the whole of the troops in the Kingston garrison were paraded at the Tete de Pont Barracks , at eleven o ' clock on the previous Monday , under the command of Lieut .-Colonel Young-, K . U ., Assistant Adjutant-General , Canada West , to hear read the sentence awarded to six privates ofthe 2 nd Battalion of Rifle Brigade , who were tried by a general court-martial at Kingston a short time ago , for deserting from a detachment of their regiment stationed at Sault St . Mary ' s , and hot returning until brought back under an escort , and for making away with , or losing through neglect ,

      certain portions of their appointments and regimental necessaries , upon which charges the whole ofthe prisoners were found guilty , and sentenced as follows : —One of them to fourteen , and two others to ten years' transportation ; the other three each to 730 days' confinement with hard labour , and the whole of them to be marked with the letter D . After being so marked , the three culprits destined for transportation were marched to the common gaol , and the others to the Provincial . Penitentiary , thereto undergo tbeir punishment , f The total number now sentenced to transportation for military offences from the corps now serving in Kingston amounts to seven—namely , Royal Artillery , two , and Rifle Brigade , five .

      _TnEBAPscxics . —The history of medicine is bv no means flattering to science . Itis questionable whether more is known of diseases , their cause , and their cure , at this moment , than in the time of Galen ; itis certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fatal . Every age has produced some new system of artificial therapeutics which the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn of cures , andthey , iu their turn , have been _condemned as failures . "Medicines themselves are the subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it has no established principles , tliat . it is little more than conjectural ? 'At this moment / says Mr . Finny , ' the opinions on the subject of treatment are almost as numerous as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction on the treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency to the introduction of bark . Morton considers bark an effectual cure . Reid ascribes the frequency of the

      disease to the use of mercury , lirillonet asserts that it is curable by mercury only . Ruse says that consumption is an inflammatory disease — should be treated by bleeding , purging , cooling medicines , and starvation . Salvador says it is a disease of debility , and should he treated by tonics , stimulating remedies , and a generous diet . Galen _recazamended vinegar as the best preventative of consumption . Dessault and others assert that consumption is often brought on by taking vinegar to _prtvent obesity , _Beddoea recommended foxglove as a specific . Dr . Parr found foxglove more injurious in his practice than beneficial . Such are the contradictory statements of medical men ! ' And yet there can be but one true theory of disease . Of the fallibility and inefficiency of medicine , none have been more conscious than medical men themselves , many of whom have been honest enough to avow their conviction , and now _recm-omend MESSRS . DU BARRY'S KBVAXENTA

      ARABI 0 A FOOD , a farina , which careful analysis has shown to be derived Irom the root ofan African plant , somewhat similar to our honeysuckle . It appears to possess properties of a highly curative and delicately nutritive kind ; and nnmerous testimonials from parties of unquestionable respectability , have attested that it supersedes medicine of every description in the effectual and permanent removal of indigestion ( dyspepsia ) , constipation , and diarrhoea , nervousness , biliousness , liver complaint , flatulency , distension , palpitation ofthe heart , nervous headache , deafness , noises in the head and ears , pains in almost every part of the body , chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach , erysipelas , eruptions on the skin , incipient consumption , dropsy , rheumatism , gout , heartburn , nausea and sickness daring pregnancy , after eatiDg , or at sea , low spirits , spasms , cramp , spleen , general debility , paralysis , asthma , coughs , inquietude , sleeplessness , intremourdislike tb unfit

      voluntary blushing , , society , ness for study , loss of memory , delusions , vertigo , blood to the head , exhaustion , melancholy , groundless fear , indecision , wretchedness , thoughts of self-destruction , and many other complaints . It is , moreover , admitted by those who have nsed it to he the best food for infants and invalids generally , as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach , but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner , and restores the faculty of indigestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled . It has the highest approbation of Lord Stuart de Secies ; the Tenerable Archdeacon Alexander Stuart , of Ross , a cure of three years' nervousness ; Major-General Thomas Kln _* j , of Exmouth ; Capt . Parker , D . Ittngham , UN , of No . -4 _Park-walk , Little Chelsea , London , who was cured of twenty-seven years dyspepsia iu six weeks time ; Captain Andrews , H . _N ., Captain Edwards , R . N . ; "William Hunt , Esq ., _harrister-at-law , King ' s College , Cambridge , who , after suffering years from partial paralysis , has regained the use of his limbs in a very short time upon this excellent food ; the Rev . Charles Kerr of functional disorders

      Winslow , Bucks , a cure of ; Mr . T . Woodhouse , Bromley— -recording the cure ofa lady from constipation and sickness during pregnancv ; the Rev . T . Minster , of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds—a cure of ave years' nervousness , with spasms and daily vomitings ; Mr . Taylor , coroner of Bolton ; Capt . Allen , recording the cure of epileptic fits ; Doctors Ure and Harvey ; James Shorland , Esq ., No . 3 , Sydney-terrace , Reading , Berks , late surgeon in the 90 th ltegiment , a cure of dropsy ; James "Porter , Esq , Athol-street , Perth , a erne of tlurtcen years cough , With general debility ; J . Smyth , Esq ., 37 Lower Abbeystreet , Dublin ; Cornelius O ' Sullivan , M . D ., F . R . C . S ., Dublin , a perfect cure of thirty years' indescribable agony from aneurism , which had resisted all other remedies ; and 10 , 000 other well known individuals , who have sent the discoverers and importers , DuBaiiby and Co ., 137 New Bond-street , London , testimonials ofthe extraordinary manner in which their health has been restored by this useful and economical diet , after all other remedies had been tried in vain ior many years and all hopes of recovery abandoned . ' A full report of important cures ofthe above and manv other eomnlaints . and testimonials from parties

      ofthe highest reepeetability _. , we find , sent gratis muu BAKETandCo . ' -Afoniiiio Chronicle . Du Babby and Co ., m New Bond-street , London ; _also of Bare ay , Edwards , Sutton , Sanger , and Uannay , and through all £ ?« c _« s _* . „ mists , medicine vendors , and booksellers in the higaom . CAOTioN . -The name of Messrs . Do Babet s invaluable rood , as also that of the firm , have been closely imitated that invalids cannot too carefully look atthe met spelling of both , and also Messrs . _DuBabbt ' s address 121 Aew Bond-street , London , in order to avoid being imposed l _^ ° . _* y _Eratana , Real Arabian Revalenta , Lentd _i-owder , . r otter spurious compounds of pease , heans imba-a and oatmeal , under a close imitation of the name , which have nothing to recommend them but the reckless audacity of their i _wiorant or unscrupulous compounders , and which , though admirably adapted for pigs , would play Bad havoc with the delicate stomach ofan invalid or infant

      The Extensive Plate Bobberies;" *William...

      THE EXTENSIVE PLATE BOBBERIES ;" * William Sirrell , of Barbican , appeared on Tuesday before Mr , Alderman Gibbs , at the Mansion House , to answer the charges brought against him of having purchased goods knowing . that they had been stolen . - ' Mr . Powell appeared as counsel to prosecute upon the part of the crown ., Mr . Lewis , of Ely-place , attended aa solicitor to the prisoner . Mr . Henry Godden said , I am a brewer , and reside at _Lunerfield-street , Maidstone . My house was broken into on the night of tho 25 th or tho morning of the 26 th of September . Access was gained by tbe dining-room window . I was first made aware of the burglary about seven o ' clock in the morning of the 27 th , when I ascertained tbat I had lost three silver pepper castors and various other articles . 1 _"ra

      have since seen the pepper castors at Scotland-yard at the police station . These ( looking at three pepper castors produced by Inspector Lund . upon the first examination ) . aro them . The cook , who was the firot person up in the house , informed mo that the house had been broken into . Witness did not know the pvisoner , and had not sold the articles to any one . Tho crest upon each of the pepper castors remains undefaced . They are ; except in a very slight degree , uninjured . Mr . Goodman next read the evidence given by Edward Ashmore , principal waiter to Mr : Argent , the proprietor of the * Rainbow Tavern _^ in Fleetstreet , as to the . loss of a spoon about the 29 th of July last , and his cross-examination relative to tbat loss . This witness could not swear thafc the spoon produced was the one lost on the day mentioned . Mr . Isaac Akgent , the proprietor of the iRainbow Tavern . —I know something ofthe loss of spoons

      and forks in my house , lately . I cannot exactly state the day , for tho waiter keeps , and is responsible for , the plate . About six _or seven weeks ago the loss was reported to me . The last loss occurred on Saturday week , when six prongs and one spoon were missed . About six or seven weeks previously to that , about the latter end of July or beginning of August , we bad a loss of plate , I havo not any books here or 1 could exactly tell the time and particulars . I have seen a . spoon afc Scotland-yard which I identify as having been lost at the latter end of July or the beginning of August . It was engraved with eleven others . I bought a dozen of them from Mr . Dismore , of whioh that spoon is one , and this is the spoon . I never sold ono of the dozen spoons I bought of Mr . Dismore to Mr . Makepeace . I have invoice and everything relating to them at home . My waiter has the custody of tho pate , but I see it every day . I can rely upon his accuracy . . .....

      Mr . Thomas Brockelby , carver and gilder , of No . 12 , Rathbone-place : Iwas at Epsom on Wednesday , the 22 nd of May , the Derby day , and had a gold watch with me . I missed ifc from my right hand waistcoat pocket immediately after the race was over . This is the watch . 1 saw it in Scotland-yard , in consequence of a communication which I had with the police . It is a Geneva watch , and I know it by the name ofthe maker , " Dubois . " I do not know the number ; but I purchased it at Machin and Denbenhams ' s quarterly sale , in tho winter of 18 * 49 , and I paid for ifc immediately . A gentleman of the name of Sanger had worn it a few days . —Mr . Lewis : What sort of a chain was there to the watch ? Witness : It was a sort of Indian rubber chain , —Mr . Lewis ; Will you swear you did not ' drop it out of your pocket ? Witness : Ko , but I lost it when a great rush was made . Ifc was opposite the graud stand . I missed it about three or four minutes after I had looked at it . —What is

      there in the watch which enables you to identify it ? Witness : I had the steel hands removed , and gold hands substituted . I paid £ 4 19 s . for it . I had lent it to Mr . Sanger , who was to purchase it froni me , and he returned it to me about a week before the races . I never inquired its value . —Mr . Lewis : When you lost the watch , where was ] the chain ? Witness : It was suspended from niy neck . —Mr . Lewis : Was it cut ? Witness : No . The chain was perfect , as waa the ring attached to it from which the watch was suspended . . The ring was steel . I was surprised how I could have lost the watch at all , as the ring and guard were entire . Mr . Sanger , a barrister ' s clerk : Mr . Brockleby is a friend of mine . I had a watch from him which I was about to purchase about six weeks before the Derby day . I wore it three or four days . ' I- do not know the number , but I believe the maker ' s

      name is " Dubois . " I observed ib particularly , as I was going to purchase it , and there was something peculiar aboufc it . Tho words "Dubois , Geneva , " were very unskilfully engraved , ; almost scratched upon it . I did not notice any other peculiarity . When I had it it had steel hands . 1 believe this to be the watch . I was to pay £ 5 for tho watch . I was at the Derby with Mr . Brockleby , and was standing by his side atthe time ofthe loss . I observed him place his watch in or somewhere about his waistcoat pocket . I will not swear that ho put ifc into his pocket . In fact , he was timing the horses with it , and probably his attention was as mnch attracted to the horses as to . the watch . He stooped under the ropes . I do not think it possible he could have lost ifc then . . How the watch could have been got away from the . chain 1 cannot tell , neither the chain nor the ring by which the watch-had been fastened to it had been

      broken , , . , Luizi Balbrsa , of North-gate , Halifax , Yorkshire , jeweller , said : On the night of the 13 th or morning of the 14 th of July I lose above one hundred gold and silver watches , upwards of 400 finger rings , five pair of gold spectacles , and other property . There were four new and one old pairs of spectacles , and I bave since seen the old pair . I know ifc from having worn it myself , and I have had them ten years in stock . I have occasionally worn them in the shop and in my room , and should know them if 1 saw them again . They aro red _oldfaBhioned gold . They have been bended near the temple . The spectacles produced are the old pair I so lost . I'll swear to their being mine . I deal a little in second-hand plate , and change articles with different makers in London . -I know of whom I buy them in general . I do nofc meltplate myself . Miss Emily Coates , of No . 25 , High-street ,

      Whitechapel , said Mrs . Freeman , of No . 18 , Grove-terrace , Kentish-town , ; is my sister . The ring produced is her ring . I have a similar ring . There is engraved on my sister's ring , "Wm . Thompson , obit September , 1836 , aged 22 . " Many of Mr . Thompson ' s family are now living . My father gave three similar rings away in memory of my uncle . My other sister has the third ring . The ring produced was lost about twelve months ago . Jonathan _Whicheb , Sergeant , 27 A . —I was in company with Inspector Lund and Sergeant Shaw on the 2 nd of October , at the time the prisoner was apprehended . I afterwards assisted in searching his place in Barbican , and , amongst other watches in a drawer in a back shop , I found the watch produced , referred to by Mr . Brockleby . We afterwards cleared the shop out , and took the property to the stationhouse . There , was a great many spoons . There were four officers engaged in the case—two were left in the house .

      Inspector Lrai . —Amongst tho property I found at the prisoner ' s house were the gold spectacles and the mourning ring produced . They were in the back shop . I have the list of the property which we removed from the prisoner ' s premises . There are , I should say , 1 , 000 spoons , some hundreds of watch movements , perhaps thirty watches , and between sixty and seventyrings . There were , I should say , twelve , or fourteen mourning rings . We havo had , I dare say , a hundred or two inquiries about the goods . The value of the property we took niay be between £ 3 , 000 and £ 4 , 000 . I havo heard that Mr . Sirrell has carried on business there thirty or forty years . . ' ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦' . '

      Alderman Gibbs then consented to take bail for the appearance of Mr . Sirrell upon a future day , when the investigation will be resumed .

      Important Geological Discovery.—It Will ...

      Important Geological Discovery . —It will undoubtedly be interesting to geologists to learn that a most important discovery has just been made in that department of science , at Applecfoss , on the west coa 3 t of Scotland . A large mountain called " Tore More , " on being accidentally excavated the other day , presented a substratum . of pure lime , within five feet of the surface : and on prosecuting the discovery by a further excavation , it was ascertained beyond a shadow of doubt that the whole mountain , except an average surface of twonty feet , consists of lime fit for the field , or the mason , the result of organic heat . The hill appears to have been at one time a stupendous limestone rock , submitted to the influence of immense heat . On the summit are found traces of volcanic origin , such as charred and vitrified stone , lava , & c .

      Extravagance Comnaire a la Alderman . —The One _Hordbkd Guinea Dibit . —This phenomenon of gastronomy , which has yet never been known in the annals of cookery , was placed before his Royal Highness Prince Albert , the Lord Mayor of York , and the Lord Mayor of London , at the grand civic banquet given in the Guildhall of the city of York , containing tho following articles , viz .: —5 turtles ' heads , part of green fat and fins , £ 34 ; 24 capons ( the noix _, or nut from the middle ofthe back , only used ) , £ 8 8 s . ; 18 turkeys , tho same , £ 8 12 s . ; 18 poulardes , the same , £ 5 17 s . ; 10 fowls , the same , £ 218 s . ; 40 woodcocks , the same , £ 8 ; 100 snipes ,

      the same , £ 5 ; 3 dozen pigeons , the same , 14 s . ; 45 partridges , the same , £ 3 7 s . 6 d . ; 10 dozen larks , whole , 15 s . ; 30 pheasants , ditto , £ 5 5 s . ; 0 plovers , ditto , 9 s . ; 3 dozen quails , £ 3 ; ortolans , £ 5 ;< the garniture , consisting of cockscombs , truffles , mushrooms , crawfish , olives , American asparagus , _croustades , sweetbreads , quenelles de volaille , j ' and sauce , £ 14 10 s . ; total , £ 105 . Ss . . Od . M . S ' pyer accounts for the great expense of this extraordinary dish in the following manner—that any gentleman ordering this dish , and having to provide the accessary articles , will easily account for tho title given to it . This dish , which took some hours to dish up , was kept hot by Roper ' s patent warming apparatus .

      ' Middlesex 7 Sessions. ; . ;. - "' .\ T...

      ' MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . ; . ; . _- _"' . \ Tho November general session Of 'the [ peace for tho County of Middlesex , commence d on Tues d ay morning at the 8 _ession House , Clerkenweil , with a calendar of fifty-three prisoners for trial . \ Robbery of RoPE _.-r- * William Watson , 35 , and William Andrews , ' 22 , were findicted for stealing three hundred pounds of rope , ralue £ 6 , ' the property of John Porter . —The prosecutor * was a , rope manufacturer , residing at No . C , f Jamaica-row ,.-Bermondsey _; ' his manufactory being in Blue Anchorrow , Rotherhithe . The rope iii question waa safe in the factory when the workmen left at six o ' clock on the evening of Saturday ! the 26 th of last month , and on the Monday morning it was found thatthe premises had been broken into , and a large _quantitj = ==

      of rope stolen . At about half-past ten on the Satuiday nighfc the prisoners were seeu by a police constable in Lowor Kent-strcefc , Spitalfields , drawing a truck laden with rope , and not receiving satisfactory answers , as to how it came into their possession , he informed them that he should tako them into custody . II © secured Watson on the spot ; Andrews succeeded in making his escape , but he was taken on the following Monday , when he appeared very indignant at the charge , and threatened to make'the police pay dearly for making it against him . —The prisoners were found Guilty . —The police officer , 64 H _, said the prisoners had not been convicted before , but they associated with thieves , and lived at a lodging-house of tho worst charaoter in ' Spitalfields . —Sentenced each to six months' hard labour .

      Robbery , of Brass and Copper , —George Nichols , a miller , was indicted for stealing a quantity of brass aud copper , the property of Samuel Kidd , his master . —The prisoner was in the employ of Mr . Samuel Kidd , a master miller , at Islewoith . For somo time past quantities of old brass had been missed from the mill , and at length tho prisoner was found by the police shortly after leaving tho premises with fifty lbs . ' of brass and two lbs . of copper in his possession . ¦ ' - He . wasapprehended , and the property was identified fas belonging to Mr . Kidd . —Guilty . Six months'hard labour . v v

      RoBBEiiY of Silk . —James Bryant , 22 , was indicted for stealing thirty-six reak of silk , and five skeins of silk , valuo £ 1 10 s , the property of Ann Harper . The prisoner , it appeared , had got into a warehouse belonging to the prosecutrix , and had secreted the property about his person ,: when he was detected by the foreman . —Mr . O'Brien elicited that the real name of the prosecutrix was Ann Harper , whilst in the indictment ifc was laid as Ann Arthur . —The learned Chairman directed an Acquittal on this ground ; and ordered a fresh bill to be taken before the grand jury . —The prosecutrix declined to prefer another bill , and the prisoner was discharged . Robbert of Hay . —James Cooper was indicted for stealing a load of hay , the property of Charles James Gingell . —The prosecutor was a salesman in Whitechapel Market , and ho received from the prisoner a load of hay for sale , the prisoner stating

      that it belonged to Mr . Sparrow , of Romford . He sold it to a dealer in the Hackney-road , and he authorised tbe prisoner to deliver it to him , the ordinary course , i n such tr a nsact i ons , b e i ng for t h e salesman to pay the person from whom he receives the hay upon the production of tho receipt of the purchaser . The prisoner took the hay away ' with a delivery-note , and on hia return he presented the note , which then purported to be signed by the customer , but the sig na t ure was , as it afterwards transpired , a forgery . One of Mr . Gingell ' s sons paid the prisoner £ 3 Cs . 13 d ., in the belief that the receipt was genuine , and that the hay had been delivered , but not only was the receipt foreed , but the prisoner had , in conjunction with a man named Boreham , who could not now be found , actually sold tbe hay to another party , a wine cooper in Great St . Helens . —Guilty . Six months' hard labour .

      Disgraceful * Conduct of a Schoolmaster . — William Henry Warren was indicted for indecently assaulting Elizabeth Cuddeford , a child of ten years of age , upon four , occasions . Mr . Ribton defended . —The defendant and his wife kept a school for children at No . SO , Judd-streefc , and the prosecutrix was one of their scholars . The boys' school was in the parlours , and : the girls' school on the _firat _. floor , and it sometimes happened that the girls had to go down from the first floor to the boys ' school , of which the defendant had the charge , to have copies set in their writing books ; and it appeared , from the evidence of the prosecutrix , that the defendant had committed the conduct imputed to him on occasions when she had gone to tiie

      parlours to have a copy set in her book . —Tho jury being unable to agree upon their verdict in the box , were looked up in a private room , and the court proceeded with other cases , When the whole of the business had been disposed of , the learned chairman sent to the jury to . ascertain if there was any probability of their coming to a decision , and an answer in the negative being returned , he ordered the court to bo adjourned until half-past seven o ' clock , and the court was soon empty . Immediately afterwards the jury came into court , having agreed upon their verdict , but the court being adjourned until half-past seven , tho verdict could not betaken until that hour . Accordingly the jury were again locked up . On this occasion there was a slight deviation from the general rule , which is , that a

      jury in deliberation shall have " neither meat , drink , nor fire , candle light excepted "—for on the jury regaining their room , they were supplied with eight pots of ale , mutton chops , sherry , sundry glasses of brandy and water , and gin and water , and pipes and tobacco ad libitum , with which they regaled themselves until the appointed hour . At half-past seven precisely Mr . Witham and Sir Moses Montefiore took their seats upon the bench , and the jury were brought into court . In answer to the usual question , they pronounced tho defendant Guilty . —Mr . Witham , addressing the defendant , said he entirely agreed with the verdict , but he should not try him upon the other indictment , in which he was charged with the like offence , the prosecutrix in that case being also one of .. his scholars . He : was a person employing himself as a schoolmaster , in which situation it waa his * dufcyto *

      inculcate in the minds of tho young the strictest proprieties of . life , hut , instead of so doing , he had availed himself of the opportunities that situation afforded him ; to corrupt them with his infernal practices , for no other epithet could be apply to his conduct , and the sentence upon him was , that he be imprisoned in the . House of Correction for one vear . —The father here applied for the expenses he had been put to in prosecuting , urging that he was but a poor working man . —Mr . Witham regretted that ho had no power to order his expenses to be paid , tho offence being one of misdemeanour , _, upoh which Sir-Moses Montefiore handed to the applicant a sum which more , than covered the expenso he had incurred . It was stated , that had the defendant been acquitted on this charge ; a number of others , of precisely the same character , would have been immediately preferred against him . _, The court then adjourned . _•* . ; _,-,

      Robbing a Chelsea Pensioner . —Rose Hamilton , 2 S , and Jane Ingham , 22 , were indicted for stealing , from the person of James Martin , a franc , a sixpence , and other monies , his property . —The prosecutor was a Chelsea pensioner , and was accosted by the prisoners near : Ranelagh-bridgo , at about one o ' clock on the morning of tbe 26 th ulfc . He had some conversation „ .. with them as to where he * could procure a bed ,, and subsequently accompanied them to a public house , where , one of the prisoners helped herself to . the'contents : of his pocket . They were watched by ; aop . olice officer : as they leff'tbe house , and on the person of Hamilton were found the identical coins of which , tho prosecutor had been

      robbed . —The jury Acquitted Ingham , and found Hamilton Guilty , and . the latter was sentenced to six months' hard . labour . —It was .: stated to , the court that the woman Ingham , had cohabited with a man named Lloyd , who was one ofthe party concerned in the murder of Mr . ; Bellchambers . * Robbing Furnished _LoDaiNos _.- _^ -Maria Nodds the elder , and Maria Nodds the younger , and ; Julia Nodds , mother and daughters , .- wero indicted- for robbing ready furnished lodgings . —The , two ; firstmentioned prisoners wero included in one indictment , there being a separate indictment against the third prisoner . They were all convicted and sentenced—the two former to six months' hard labour each , and the latter to three months' hard labour .

      Singular Accident.—A Few Days Since (Say...

      Singular Accident . —A few days since ( says the Poole Herald ) , one of the labourers employed in extracting the shale from the cliffs near Smedmore , casually remarked to one of-his comrades that he must take care ho did not slip from suoh a dangerous spot , and if such should happen he wondered what would be best to do .. On the following day , returning to tho works after dinner , the same _jman _jumped-upon the ledge where he was to work , and , in the carelessness which the familiarity of working in such dangerous situations so often engenders _^ his jump was attended with almost fatal consequences , for its torce caused him to lose his balance , and he found _himsclfirresistibly impelled over tho face of

      the cliff , and although his peril was so great , yet , with wonderful presence of mind , he sprung away from the edge of the precipice with as a strong a bound as he could give , and thus clearing the projections below , fell on tho beach from a height of nearly one hundred feet ; his fellow workmen ran with all speed to tho nearest place for descending to the sands , and on rounding tho point in the expectation of finding tho mutilated remains oftheir companion , they saw him sitting on one of the rocks and coolly endeavouring with all his might to adjustthe . knee joint which had been put out by the force of tho fall _; and this , with the shook the system had otherwise suffered , was all he complained of , and he is now convalescent .

      Suspension , of the Contbmplatbd Reduction of tee _Armv . —Wg understand from good authority thafc tho intention o ? reducing 5 , 000 men in the next year ' s estimates is suspended , and that the present numbers will be proposed . —Naval and Military Gazette .

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      Court Of Fachequer. 1 Seduction. — Foste...

      COURT OF _FACHEQUER . 1 SEDUCTION . — FOSTER V . HOWARD . This was an action by whioh the plaintiff sought to recover compensation in damages for the loss ol the services of his daughter in consequence ofher seduction by the defendant . —The defendant pleaded Not . Guilty , and that the plaintiff ' s daughter was not his servant . —Mary Ann Foster said , I am now seventeen years of age , and am the second daughter of my father , the plaintiff , who has eight children . My father is a brrckmaker . T never knew tho defendant until I went to pay a visit at his house . I knew him about three months altogether .. At that time I had left school about two years . I Wont on this visit to the defendant ' s house in the month of

      October , 1849 . The defendant lives at Hadleigh , arid my father resides afc West Barnet . ' When I first saw the defendant ifc was in the month of July , 1849 , and from that day to tho day of my visit I had > een him but twice : 1 heard the defendant ask my father and mother . to allow me to visit them , to keep his wife company . The consent having been given , I went over with the defendant in his gig on the last day of September , 1849 , and we . started about six o ' clock in the evening . I was unacquainted with the road from niy father ' s to the defendant ' s house . Aa we were passing through Barnet , the defendant wanted me to go into the Salisbury Arms , and have some wine , but I refused . At this time it was quite dark . The defendant took the wrong road , and after wo had gone some way

      he put his hand upon my knees . 1 said that if ho did this I should go home , whereupon ho desisted , and returning back into the right road , he then drove to his house , where I saw his wifo . The defendant is about forty _lyears of age , and has a Wife and four children , the oldest of whom is ten years of age . I slept in a room over tho kitchen , and tho defendant and his wife slept in a room above that in which I was . When 1 had been there about a fortnight the defendant came into my room one morning between five and six o ' clock for some gig cushions , as he said . At that time I was asleep , but being awakened I found that ho was _sitting on my bed taking indecent liberties witb me . The defendant asked me to accompany him to London and go to the play . I replied that I did not

      want to go to the play . The dofendanfc then began to struggle with me , in ' the course of which encounter I got out of bed , and running towards the door , said that I would tell his wife of his conduct , when he said , "Oh , don't tell Mrs . Howard . " The defendant put his back against the door to prevent my leaving the room . I then said that I would call out , but he seized hold of me , and , throwing mo on the bed , effected his purpose , and so seduced me . Having done this , tho defendant again asked me to accompany him to London , but I refused . He then left the house in about five minutes . Ten days afterwards the defendant again came into my bedroom . I was not asleeD on that occasion ; it was , as before , between five and six o ' clock . I had not expected such a visit . He asked me to go to

      London with him , and said that if I would , he would give me a gold watch and a satin dress ; and he also asked me if I would have some money . I replied to the latter question that I had some , and he then seduced me again . I told him he bad ruined me . On this occasion the defendant was in the room about ten minutes . He was , as before , dressed with the exception of his coat . I remained three weeks in the house after this , but the defendant did not take any more liberties with me . About a fortnight subsequent to my return home , tbe defendant and his wife came over . At that period I had not made any mention of what had occurred . The defendant asked my father and mother to allow me to return with them , when I said , * . ' No , mother , I will not go back with them . " My mother said ,

      "You have no occasion to go back unless you like it . " I was brought to bed on the 12 th of July last , at East Barnet . I had told my mother on the 15 th of March that I was in the family way . Since that time my father has never spoken to me . I was , howerer , conSned at his house , and I still reside there . —Cross-examined : I was seventeen on the Gth of July last , and had left school two years when this occurred . I assisted in managing and keeping my father ' s house , After the seduction had taken place I made no mention of it to the defendant ' s wife , nor to the servant , who slept on the sanie floor with the defendant and his wife . During the seven weeks that I was living in the defendant ' s house I went home on two occasions ; but I did not on cither of those occasions say a word about the

      treatment I had received from the defendant to any one . I did not scream out when the defendant seduced me . The room in which it was effected was only about ten steps from the room in whicli Mrs . Howard was in bed . On the succeeding morning of each seduction I breakfasted at the same table with the defendant ' s wife , but I never said a word to her as to her husband ' s treatment of me . The coach passed by the house every day , but I did not go home by it . W : Layard , a foreman to the plaintiff , stated that after the discovery of tho girl's pregnancy the defendant had come to his master ' s house , and as he feared some scuffle might tako place between his master and tho defendant he had gone into an adjoining room . The plaintiff said , on seeing the defendant , _" Ob , Howard , you have ruined my

      daughter ! ' The defendant made no reply to this exclamation . The plaintiff then said , " You scoundrol , how could you treat me thus ? You have ruined my daughter ! " The defendant thereupon said , " Ifc is a bad job , let us settle it as well as we can . I would not that it had happened for a thousand pounds ; what will my wife say ? " The plaintiff rejoined , " What will my poor daughter say ?" Since this event my master is quite an altered man , and is terribly dejected and cut up . —Mr . Macpherson , the landlord of the " Woodman , " at Barnet , spoke to the propriety and strictness with which the plaintiff had brought up his family . : Since this

      affair the plaintiff had become a broken-hearted man . — -Mr . Berry , the medical man who had attended the girl in her confinement , said that the expenses were between £ S and £ 9 in consequence of her having an ulcer in her breast . , He had known her family for three years previously , and had always considered the . plaintiff to be a very strict and prudent man with regard to the _bringing up of his children . —This _concluded the case for the plaintiff . —Mr . Serjeant Wilkins having addressed the jury forthe defendant , the jury _iretired , and , after a short deliberation , returned into court with a verdict for tho plaintiff , damages £ 200 .

      The Attacks Upon The Poles And The Polis...

      THE ATTACKS UPON THE POLES AND THE POLISH BALL .

      A meeting of gentlemen connected with tho committee for carrying out the contemplated ball in behalf of the Polish Refugees , was held on Tuesday in the Privy Chamber of the aldermen , at the Guildhall . Mr . Deputy Holt presided , and several gentlemen of tho committee were present . Lord Dudley , Stuart defended the intended ball from the unkind attacks mado upon it in some of the public prints . . If a party of gentlemen had obtained from the Clerk of Common Council the use of the Guildhall merely in order to give them a bachelors' ball , or any other entertainment whose announcement was not tho means but the sole end and aim , not a word probably would have , been said against it . ( A laugh . ) It is not wrong , then , to

      give a ball at Guildhall ; but it is wrong , it seems , to give ifc for the Poles .. Lot me aslc ,. why is this wrong ? Tho only answer thafc . can bo made . isj either that the Polos- are undeserving , or that they stand in tho way of some other still more deserving objects . The first is assumed by tho objectors , one and all , and if tho assumptions , wero well founded they would-be ih the right . If it can be shown thafc the proceeds of former balls have been bestowed upon men able but unwilling to work , and who have the opportunity , if they chose to exert themselves , of finding employment—if that can bo shown , then will the , Polish ball not , deserve support . ( Hear , hoar . ) It has been argued that because . many of the Polish exiles came to this country immediately after

      the last Polish war of independence , somo eighteen or nineteen years ago , that , therefore they must all by thistime havo got the means of supporting themselves ; and'tho example of Louis Philippe , in exile is pointed at , maintaining himself by tho exercise of his own talents and acquirements . The man who has left the plough , the loom , and tho workshop to take tip arms for Poland , cannot . follow in the track of Louis Philippe ; and do you think it is easy for him in tho streets of London , where so many mechanics and artisans of ouv own country are constantly wanting work—is ifc easy for him , with his broken English and Foreign accent , to find employment , and through all changes to keep it ? Ifc is not easy , and it is often , with the best will in the world , wholly impracticable . And , while I am speaking of working men , allow mo to pay a just tribute to the generous natures of our own working men , | ever

      ready to hold out tbo hand of fellowship and assistance to their fellow man of whatever creed or country , and to spare to tho exile a portion of their own bard-earned pittance , often setting a noble example to those who in the gift of fortune aro im _« measurably their superiors . ( Cheers . ) . _^ Veil / gentlemen , I think I have shown you thafc tho Poles whom ifc is proposed to assist are nofc undeserving . They aro nofc idle , disorderly , immoral persons ; It is not those wo assist , but men driven into exile in consequonce of discharging their duty as they understood it , men whose misfortunes are not / of their own oreation , and who only do not , work when no work can be had , or when incapacitated from taking it ( Hear , hear . ) That is my reply to those _whd are opposed to our ball , on the ground that its objects _^ unworthy . Lord . Dudley Stuart having coneluded a lengthy speech , the committee adjourned .

      The Rumour Ofa » Comprehensive" Minister...

      The Rumour ofa » comprehensive" Ministerial measure of Parliamentary reform , tobe introduced in 1851 , is revived by the Morning Advertiser in a tone of confidence .

      : Trial By Jury. , Ontuesdaj Tho Fifty-S...

      : TRIAL BY JURY . _, OnTuesdaj tho fifty-sixth anniversary in commemoration of the acquittal of Home Tooke , Hardy , and Thelwall , took place , at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street ,, Blaekfriars . The chair was taken by Mr . W . J . Fox , M . P ., who was supported by the following gentlemen Mr . J . Toulmiii fSmitbj Mr . F . W . Newman , ' Count Pulski _, Mr / S . Shaen , M . A ., Mr . F . Lawrence , Mr . Parry , Mr . Charles Pollen , Mr . P . A . Taylor , Mr . W . _Strudwick _, die . The Chairman Baid that were there no other reason for upholding that annual commemoration , thia would be a valid one , that it was a rallying point for the veteran reformers of the generation that waa passing away , and the rising reformers of the generation that was starting into political lifo , and

      united them in oneness of principle and . of feeling . They had still those _lingering amongst them whoso voices joined in the ebout raised at the acquittal of Hardy and his associates ; There wero also many thero to whom that event was a matter of history , who associated it in their minds withievents recorded of times gone by , but who were thero mado to feel tho reality bf those exciting scenes , the importance of that struggle , and the-blessed influence ofthat deliverance . ( Cheers . ) Their objects in thafc assembly were chiefly these—to preserve and do homage to the memory of good , true , brave men—men who wero worthy of being held in continual remembrance , who were the confessors of liberty , and wero ready to bo martyrs —[( cheers)—and to testify to tbe worth of the institution to

      whioh they owed their escape . But especially were they assembled to commemorate the principle for which these men assembled , and for which their Vivos were put ; in peril . ( Cheers . ) They met to assert and to reassert , from year to year , that great foundation truth of all politics , the primary article of thoir social creed , that all power was derived from and was to be exercised for the good of the people , its basis being the sovereignty of tho people . ( Cheers . ) By tne phraso "the sovereignty of the people , " they did not mean an unreasoning power to be put forth upon mere impulse , but tho primary authority of the people to be exorcised through tho medium of representation . They meant that sovereignty which had been in partial exorcise from , the earliest periods . Ifc was to be " traced in

      the passing of the great charter , when , principles were laid down which to this day continued to be landmarks of rights and justice ; in tbe early days of the House ef Commons , however imperfect might be the system of representation , tho redress of grievances was connected with the granting of supplies . Ifc was to be seen in tho banishment of one dynasty and the substitution for it of another , involving the principle thafc monarchs existed for the people with their sufferance , and that the continuance of their authority was dependent onthe people's acquiescence and practical approbation . They rejoiced in the extension of the means o £ bringing this principle into operation . It was thia which gave them a claim to the title of a people . On looking around the world they lamented to see

      how much the existence ofthe popular element waa denied . In countries where there was , only the despot , ' the serf , and the soldiers , there was not , and it would be in vain to talk of the sovereignty of the people ; but they believed not in the continuance of this chaos ; on the contrary , they believed there would yet be a Germany —( cheers)—one , g roat , nnd free—they believed there would yet bs a Hungarian nation , and a Poland —( great cheering )—i they believed that the sovereingty of the people was growing , and would beoome a universal reality ( Cheers-. ) The sovereignty of tbe people in this country could not , in his opinion , berealised

      without the universality of the suffrage . ( Hear , hear . Towards that end they were advancing . _^ Schemes short of that might be proposed , and for a time might be worthy of adoption and support ; but still the inherent conviction of those who united with , and of thoso who had now succeeded the patriots of 1794 , was this—that nothing short of _,-tho universality of the suffrage could satisfy the claims of human nature or render to man thafc which was his right . Ifc was with this conviction that he gave what had always been the introductory toast on those occasions , " The sovereignty of thepeople . " ( Cheers . )

      The toast was drunk with the honours . - Mr . Toulmin Smith , in an eloquent speech , proposed tho toast of " Trial by Jury—the palladium of British liberty . " The toast was drunk with enthusiasm . The Chairman then proposed the health of the twelve men who in 1794 were acquitted , and proved the inestimable advantage of trial by jury , even under the pressure of power put forth for their destruction . Those men had now all dropped into the grave , but the commemoration continued and would continue . ( Cheers . ) Since tho great event commemorated on that oocasion , heaven-born ministers had risen and fallen—thrones had been shakenwars had been waged and concluded—and still there had been a gathering of true and honest- men to

      celebrate the deliverance of fifty-six years back . No one of the twelve men in after life ever stained the memory of that great day of deliverance . No one of them was ever assailed by tbo breath of vituperation , or did anything to disgrace the cause with which his name had become identified . The course which they all took was a noble one . They sought for nothing but what high political authorities had sanctioned their seeking , and they sought ; it by means worthy of freomen ; and after the trial they returned to their several occupations , and pursued them honourably . They always continued consistent to their principles , and several of them , having spent a long life , sank peacefully into their graves , amid the blessings of all : good men . They were nofc the notoriously profligate ; they were nofc

      offenders against tho decencies of society ; but they were men who approved themselves honesfciind upright in their dealings ; and ib could no . fc but strike the _younge-st minds that there must be something wrong-in a system which sought to make them die the . death of dogs . . These were tho . men whom the government of tho day sought , to destroy .. . [ And by what means ? By imagining or purposely inventing tho notion of conspiracy ; by employing spies , and by attempting to tamper with tbe jury . The trials were conducted with rigour .. The . prisoners were confined iu dungeons , and ; some of-them deprived of their papers untilit was too late to use them ; and upwards of thirty day 3 were passed iin endeavours to procure thoir condemnation . - . -. This : was the feeling of the ruling classes of this country ; thia

      was the feeling of a professedlyo religious ; king- * ( hear , " " hear)—in reality a narrow-minded bigot , and whose long reign was marked by the shedding of more blood , by the wasting pi moro treasure , and by the loss of more territory , than that of * any preceding monarch , This was "the policy of the _/ Church , and State . ( Hearj hear . ) All that . was retrogade in mind and hea _* jtr-all the owls , and bats , and birds of night that hate the sunshine—all were alarmed at the principles which were dawniDg upon the world , and ' eombined to crush those who asserted that God and nature had made men free and equal _, flow undoubtingiy they stood that conflict they learnt from the memoirs of Thelwall . __ . So warrants were prepared , and would have been issued ; had a verdict been * , obtained . But tho accused endured tho trial , and they had their . reward in this

      affectionate commemoration . ( Cheers ;) Although in these days , the press was free to an extent of which they had no conception ; although in these days free trade had taught feudalism that its day was over , and that it had now . only to "die in peace ; " although the country , whilo showing its * love of order had shown also its love of freedom and of political progression ; although . they lived in ; better days , and in hopes of brighter days yet : to come , still , lot them not forgot those who contributed to this joyous march of events , and had their names inscribed onthe page ; of . history , : in letters' which would never grow , d im and . be . r ead without * emotion _. Their spirit survived _j . i ' fc _. would , not die '; ifc . would outlast all struggles . There was" a , spirit Of inherent immortality which inspired tho bosoms ' of the men commemorated , and might well strengthen their hearts in this commemoration .. . ; ; . ' *

      1 Tho toast was drunk with miich enthusiasm . Mr . Parry proposed ' ! The mopiory of . Mutr , Palmer , and Skirving _^ and the other Scotch patriots who wore convicted and sentenced between 1793 and 170-1 . " ; 7 ' " " The toast was cordially responded to . - Mr . FhAncis Newman proposed , " The memory of the Hungarians who fell in the maintenance of their liberties , and in vindication of the laws of their country . " . .,: . . - ¦ ¦ _•>' ¦ ¦ _. ¦ : ¦¦ _,.. •• Count Polsky returned thanks . He said local _self-tfovernmenVhad been the palladium of _Hungarian liberty . ' In England there wero -three' safeguards of liberty—freedom of the press , trial by jury , and looal self-government ; in . _Hungaryithero was only . one—namely , . local self-government , ( Cheers . ) Ii # thc . name of tho survivors of the lato war , and of the prisoners in Asiii and Europe , ha returned his warmest thanks for tbo . ' commemoration of ; tbeir martyrs . ' . 7 v 7

      . Mr . F . Lawrence proposed '' The memories of tho lury who acquitted Hardy and his associates , and or the counsel who defended them , Erskine and Gibbs . " . ' ¦ ' - ; . The toast was duly responded to . . The oompany broke up at a lato hour , apparently hi ghly pleased with the manner m which tho commemoration had passed off .

      , Passports Have Been, Abolished: Throug...

      , Passports have been , abolished : throughout the Chilian territories . _^^^ _tes . Holloway ' s r . _igs a « _ond md _st _omach _^ _m _,.. _CoMrLAWM . _iNoio _^ Tio _^ _^ reto Mfrwn 3 !' fl * , _S » io ? iitii _^ _onsendence of ill . _health-So _^ li _(^^ _S 3 _ate hy over- attention i _« _» - ¦ _^ letQ u _^ et of ¦ _MCTiaV _*** fV V < _S ; _f ' _tocher ' wHh palpitation of the , be _^ _t _^ _# T _* _fevQ _sTaSbfhh friends I try Holloway ' s _* f _« e _£ < _gg _& Seal advice that he had obtained was _uA _^^ Jge * W _^ persevered iu their use , and attended _strictf _? _iphe diet as . , ,- _rgj _* r _* Sj advised , and he i 8 now perfectly restored , "W _^^^ _- _^ _- _^ r . _^ _'J _^ _gll better than it ever was before , although _he _|^ _y _^ _'h _^• _3 _^^ _Bix _^ _3 _"' _. _. _H _vfjtKUHl ¦ - _^ jfl _^ Bfll _^ BBflHH

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 9, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_09111850/page/7/